Past Exhibitions

Location: Silver Center for the Arts - Celebrating artistic achievements by area youth, this exhibit is presented in collaboration with area art teachers. This exhibit provides a month-long moment and space to highlight the excellent educational experiences art teachers have developed, making visible both the magic of the artworks, and the design and intention of the educator that makes it possible.

Location: Museum of the White Mountains - This exhibition celebrates the multitude of talent, work, and passion of PSU student artists and the total spectrum of PSU’s Art and Design program. Every year, students are invited to submit their best work, no matter where they are in their development.

After the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023, survivors continue to face mounting challenges. Despite initial aid efforts, their struggles persist, their traumas are unimaginable, and their voices often go unheard; they already feel forgotten.

The exhibition will explore the past, present, and future of Indigenous basketry in the White Mountains region. As a museum about a place, our exhibitions seek to present stories about the people, plants, and animals of our region. In this case, we will be exploring the intersection between Indigenous basketry, brown ash trees, and the Emerald Ash Borer.

Location: Silver Center for the Arts - Barbara Smith Dearborn was born in 1935 in Long Island, New York and moved to Plymouth during her teenage years. She graduated from Plymouth High School in 1953. She met her husband Denny Dearborn at Plymouth State (then Plymouth Teachers College). Barbara majored in mathematics, and after receiving her B.Ed. degree from Plymouth State she was hired by Plymouth Teachers College.

Exhibition Dates: April 13, 2024 – May 4, 2024Opening Reception: April 12, 2024The annual Art and Design Capstone exhibition features the work, passion, and

Exhibition Dates: February 10 – April 1, 2024Opening Reception: February 17, 2:00-4:00pmCelebrating artistic achievements by area youth, this exhibit is

Exhibition Dates: January 23, 2024 – March 23, 2024Opening Reception: January 27, 2024, 2:00-4:00pmMembers of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Women’s

Exhibition Dates: October 12, 2023 – December 8, 2023Opening Reception: October 11, 2023, 4:00p-6:00pmThis exhibition celebrates the multitude of talent,

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 4:00p-7:00p This opening will begin with a performance by Walking Backwards, a company dedicated to

This exhibition is a photographic exploration of New Hampshire iconography and the driving symbols behind New Hampshire’s state identity. Through the examination of iconic people, places, and material culture, we capture the enduring spirit of our state’s history and unique symbolic expression.

 Opening Reception: June 2, 2023, 4:00-6:00pmLocation: Museum of the White Mountains, Main GalleryOn May 3, 2003, New Hampshire awoke to a world in which

This exhibition features creative pieces by Granite State students in grades 5 through 12 about their experiences with mental health in New Hampshire. Winners

Opening Reception: April 14, 2023, 5:00-7:00pmLocation: Silver Center for the Arts, Lobby Gallery and the Museum of the White MountainsThe annual BFA

Opening Reception: March 5, 2023, 1 – 3 p.m.Celebrating artistic achievements by area youth, this exhibit is presented in collaboration with area art

Opening Reception: March 1, 2023, 5:00-7:00pmThis exhibition celebrates the multitude of talent, work, and passion of PSU student artists and the total spectrum

Opening Reception: November 19, 2022, 4:00-6:00pmLong a site of collaboration for scientists, for the last decade the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest has

Opening Reception: November 5, 2022, 5:00-7:00pmDedicated to the art of the unique print, the Monotype Guild of New England is a national, nonprofit

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 16, 5-7pmCo-Curators: Suzan Gannett (Suzan Gannett Creations) and Maundy Mitchell (Maundy Mitchell Photography)This

Opening Reception: October 5, 2022, 4:00-6:00pmLocation: Museum of the White Mountains, Main GalleryHighlighting new and recent work by Plymouth State

Opening Reception: October 8, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pmThis exhibition highlights Plymouth State University student artwork acquired annually by the University

Summer Building Hours: Silver Center is open Tuesday-Thursday from 10am-4pm. Enter through the door on Court Street. *The building is also open during scheduled

This exhibition brings together a plurality of voices that span 200 years of appreciating and adapting to the seasons in the White Mountains: Abenaki basketmakers joining with foresters to protect the brown ash tree; artists immersing themselves in experimental environmental research; scientists at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, the Mount Washington Observatory, and the Appalachian Mountain Club building a robust understanding of climate change; painters traveling to these mountains to re...

This exhibition celebrates the multitude of talent, work, and passion of PSU student artists and the total spectrum of PSU’s Art program.Every year, all

Celebrating artistic achievements by area youth, this exhibit is presented in collaboration with area art teachers. This exhibit provides a month-long

Process Meets Practice shines a light on five women artists who have taught and led at Plymouth State University and the PSU Art Department. This exhibit explores how these artists created, instructed, and inspired hundreds of art students over the years in a traditionally male-dominated field. Process Meets Practice features drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and stories that celebrate these women and their lasting impact on PSU.

Online/ Museum of the White Mountains, Main Gallery - This exhibition features environmental artwork from Kimberly Ritchie’s recent sabbatical experiences in Greece and Iceland. The exhibit also highlights faculty led, student made, collaborative work from interdisciplinary projects across campus, involving the intersection of the human race and the natural world that impacts endangered, invasive, undiscovered, and evolving species.

NH NOW is a two-year project to photographically record life in New Hampshire. Nearly 50 photographers traveled throughout the state between 2018 and 2020, making thousands of images that collectively create a twenty-first-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New Hampshire. MWM is one of eight sites across NH presenting this exhibition simultaneously. 

Wayfinding: Maps of the White Mountains features maps from the far and recent past, as well as map tools for today’s hikers, tourists, scientists, weekend explorers, and enthusiasts. The exhibition illustrates two broad historical themes. First, we see the development of surveying and mapping technology from the 18th century to the present, as it has been applied to the White Mountains. Second, we see the changing purposes and uses of maps in this region, as the culture, politics, and the ec...

The annual BFA capstone exhibition features the work, passion, and educational journey by PSU senior students. Graphic Design, Multi Media, and Studio student artists working in a variety of mediums spend the academic year exploring and assembling a collection of works, personal to their interests.

Celebrating all levels of student art making at PSU Welcome to EMERGING: Annual PSU Student Juried Art Exhibition! This exhibition celebrates the multitude

Location: Silver Center for the Arts Lobby Gallery - In celebration of Plymouth State’s 150 year anniversary in 2021, this exhibition will be a three-dimensional timeline running through the Silver Center for the Arts Lobby, telling the history in 150 objects.

Featuring works by visual artist Kathryn Field and poet Timothy Muskat, this interactive and dynamic experience will engage visitors in a sense of place through words and images focused on the experience of the White Mountains. Tim has been hiking in the White Mountains all his life. He has completed 85 rounds of New Hampshire’s high 48; is working on his seventh so-called Grid; and has summited Mt Washington 416 times. Kathryn has been drawn to wilderness since childhood; the vastness, scale...

The Bicknell’s Thrush, a rare bird that breeds in the White Mountains inspired this multi-year, multiphase international cluster project and interdisciplinary exhibit. This exhibit examines issues like land management, deforestation, New Hampshire tourism, economic development, gender studies, and international environmental, social, and political impact. PSU students have been involved in the project, interacting with key partners, and developing effective conservation advocacy initiatives r...

February 23, 2013 through March 2, 2014Online ExhibitionExhibition VideoExhibition Catalog   Passing Through: The Allure of the White Mountains,

Location: Karl Drerup Art Gallery - Guy Shorey was a preeminent photographer in New Hampshire’s North Country in the first half of the twentieth century. This exhibition explores Shorey in his various roles: as an observer of his own life and the life of his community at work and at play; as an entrepreneur, using the attraction of the local photograph to provide a livelihood and to encourage visitation to his beloved Gorham and Randolph; and as an artist, whose sense of place and affection f...